Whether you’re unfamiliar with the name, or it evokes adventures that have kept you on the edge of your seat, the Roman Museum in Nyon takes you along in the footsteps of this young hero, born in 1948 under the pen of Jacques Martin for the newspaper Tintin. Jacques Martin, who passed away in 2010, was the last of the big three at Studios Hergé, and one of the key players in the development of French-language comics in the aftermath of the2nd World War. A history buff, the man some have called the “father of historical comics” created the series of adventures of Alix, a young hero parachuted into the time of Julius Caesar, an Antiquity dreamt up for the imagination, but which he wanted to be faithful to historical reality.
The work of Alix’s father, who now occupies a privileged place in the history of comics, has fascinated both amateurs and experts in the field of archaeology.
The exhibition’s scientific design was entrusted to Christophe Goumand, in collaboration with Marc Azéma and Pierre-Alain Bertola.
